Man stabbed after verbal altercation at Station Square

Pittsburgh police are investigating a stabbing that happened outside a Station Square nightclub early Friday morning.

Brion Harrison, 20, was being held Friday in the Allegheny County Jail, charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and possessing instruments of crime.

According to the criminal complaint, police working a security detail outside Station Square saw several men chasing each other in the parking lot near the toll booth. Police say the group ran off under the pedestrian tunnel near the Smithfield Street Bridge and the Grand Concourse.

A few minutes later, according to the complaint, the officers heard one of the men yelling, "Officers! You need to help us! This guy stabbed my friend!" Police then noticed the victim, identified as a 20-year-old from the Homestead area, bleeding from the chest.

Police say the man had a white, blood-soaked T-shirt balled up and pressed against his right shoulder, and he pointed to Harrison, who handed officers a knife, according to the complaint.

Harrison told officers he had been at Whim Nightclub. Police say when the bar closed, he left and approached the other people, who were also patrons at the bar. Harrison claims they started to taunt him and call him derogatory names.

Harrison also told police he and the group of men began to exchange words, and they began to chase him around the property. The fight escalated with Harrison allegedly stabbing a man who allegedly threatened him with a brick.

When Harrison was taken into custody, he allegedly told police that the men started to taunt him for what he was wearing: skin-tight grey running tights, a skin-tight shirt and a blue stuffed animal backpack.

Police said the victim's friends told them that Harrison kept asking to fight the victim, who Harrison claimed threatened him with a brick. Police said they interviewed people at the scene and collected several items but did not find a brick.

The victim was taken to UPMC Mercy for surgery. He was in critical condition but was expected to survive, police said.

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